USA: Engineering consultancy Parsons Brinckerhoff has been awarded contracts to manage high speed and inter-city passenger rail development projects in... More...

CHINA: March 16 marked the simultaneous opening of the new Terminal 2 at Hongqiao International Airport and an 8 km extension of Shanghai metro Line 2 to... More...

LIBYA: The first 14 km of track has been laid for the 554 km Surt - Benghazi railway, Russian Railways has announced.

RZD is building the line parallel to... More...

Argentina: Emepa and Ferromel have dispatched the first 40 of 100 coal wagons for YCRT’s 760 mm gauge Río Turbio – Río Gallegos operation (RG 2.08 p73).... More...

USA: Wabtec Corp announced its acquisition of signal engineering and design firm Xorail for $40m in cash on March 15.

Founded in 1990 as Southwest Signal... More...

SPAIN: As it assumes greater responsibility for the management of suburban services in Barcelona, the Catalunya regional government has signed an agreement... More...

Austria: ÖBB has awarded the Alptransit Energie consortium of Rhomberg Bahntechnik and DB Bahnbau a €39m contract to supply electrical equipment for the... More...

Australia: Interfleet Technology is to provide operations advice for the development of the 13 km Gold Coast Rapid Transit line.

Morocco: Telvent is to... More...

INTERNATIONAL: A Technical Recommendation to enable benchmarking of locomotive and rolling stock energy consumption has been published by UIC and UNIFE. The... More...

UK: Transport Secretary Lord Adonis published the government's high speed rail strategy on March 11, setting out details of a planned 400 km/h high speed... More...